LA Times: The lessons out of the sunny Voice of San Diego offices appear to be these: A local news site can flourish on charitable donations. It helps to have one big benefactor to get things started. It makes more sense to cover a few topics well, rather than a lot poorly.

Talking Points Memo: Advocates for women workers have felt great anxiety about whether the Obama administration would make sure that women - along with men - would be included in the $787-billion stimulus package that on 17 February 2009 completed its passage through both houses of Congress.

IPS: Pakistani lawyer and human rights activist Hina Jilani is a member of the Eminent Jurists Panel on Terrorism, Counter-terrorism and Human Rights, convened by the International Commission of Jurists (www.icj.org) to investigate counter-terrorism practices and human rights standards.

NPR: Facebook users are up in arms over who owns the rights to content that users post on the social networking site. Facebook updated the language in its terms of use earlier this month; users agree to those terms when they sign up with the site.

Huffington Post: As the $789 economic stimulus plan is being signed today by President Barack Obama in Denver, two women deserve much of the credit. Without the leadership of Maine Senator Susan Collins and her colleague Senator Olympia Snowe, there would be no signing ceremony today.

USA Today: When the Supreme Court returns to the bench Monday for the second half of its annual term, justices will hear several cases that could make this the most important session for civil rights law in years.

Politico.com: House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer (D-Md.) is pushing Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) to take a harder line with the Senate after a trio of Republican senators forced Congress to trim billions from the $787 billion economic stimulus package.

Women's eNews: The economic stimulus package approved yesterday allows states to use work-force development funds to improve training for direct-care workers. This is a good step, says Karen Kahn, but this vital part of the work force needs more help now.

RH Reality Check: Last week Congress ditched a family planning expansion from the stimulus, saying it didn't belong in an economic recovery package. But young, unintended parenting is a key indicator for poverty.

Science Daily: Assisted birth has likely been around for millennia, possibly dating as far back as 5 million years ago when our ancestors first began walking upright, according to University of Delaware paleoanthropologist Karen Rosenberg.

NY Times: Three years after New York Theater Workshop drew protests for canceling "My Name Is Rachel Corrie," a play sympathetic to Palestinians, it is considering mounting a production of a new piece by Caryl Churchill, "Seven Jewish Children: A Play for Gaza," that at times contains images of heartless Israelis.